Manchester can look forward to a summer in full bloom after scooping the top prize in the national ‘Grow Wild England’ competition.

New figures on the number of arrests and convictions for possessing images of child sexual abuse in Greater Manchester have been described by the NSPCC as confirming ‘a deeply worrying trend’.

More than 10,000 LEGO bricks have been donated to a Manchester children’s charity in a bid to bring fun and happiness to the city’s most disadvantaged kids.

A man is walking the length of the River Thames in London – more than 200 miles – to raise cash for The Christie Hospital in Manchester after his dad was successfully treated there.

Manchester’s LGBT Foundation is part of a new campaign to put an end to around 35,000 victims of LGBT hate crimes suffering in silence every year.

Amateur athlete Laura Nuttall does the ‘inhuman’ as she faces the UK’s largest non-stop ultra-marathon this Saturday – running 69 miles in just 24 hours for charity Manchester Mind.

Manchester Dogs Trust is desperate to find a home for an Akira Cross who has spent nearly half its life in kennels.

A Manchester female genital mutilation awareness charity, Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA), is calling for ‘widespread community’ action to fill the ‘gaping hole’ in the provision of support for FGM victims.

Manchester’s shopping and eating district is launching a new monthly market later in June and the first event is to feature a Lego Walk to raise money for the Christie.

Young Mancunians who’ve upped sticks and left their family home aren’t prepared for the reality of life without the parental ‘safety net’.

A Salford University graduate is pushing himself to complete a 192-mile challenge in just seven days (that’s more than a marathon a day) AND another marathon on top of an already grueling to-do list to raise funds for Malawian orphans.